## milter configuration written by Ruby

milter configuration written by Ruby — How to write configuration file

## About this document

Milters written by Ruby support configuration file that has the same syntax of milter-manager's one. But configuration items are different. This documents describes about how to write configuration file and configuration items.

## Summary

You can specify configuration file by -c or --configuration option. For example, here is a command line that a milter, milter-regexp.rb, uses /etc/milter-regexp.conf as its configuration:

    % ruby milter-regexp.rb -c /etc/milter-regexp.conf

Configuration file uses the following syntax:

    GROUP.ITEM = VALUE

For example, set value of "connection_spec" item in "milter" group to "inet:12345" for set milter's listen socket address to IPv4 address and 12345 port:

    milter.connection_spec = "inet:12345"

Here are available groups:

- Security

- Log

- Milter

- Database

Here are descriptions of configuration items.

## Security

You can use configuration items same as milter manager's "log" group. Please see milter-manager's document page for details.

security.effective_user | See security.effective_user .
security.effective_group | See security.effective_group .

## Log

You can use configuration items same as milter manager's "security" group. Please see milter-manager's document page for details.

log.level | See log.level .
log.use_syslog | See log.use_syslog .
log.syslog_facility | See log.syslog_facility .

## Milter

You can use configuration items same as milter manager's "manager" group. Please see milter-manager's document page for details.

milter.connection_spec | See manager.connection_spec .
milter.unix_socket_mode | See manager.unix_socket_mode .
milter.unix_socket_group | See manager.unix_socket_group .
milter.remove_unix_socket_on_create | See manager.remove_unix_socket_on_create .
milter.remove_unix_socket_on_close | See manager.remove_unix_socket_on_close .
milter.daemon | See manager.daemon .
milter.pid_file | See manager.pid_file .
milter.maintenance_interval | See manager.maintenance_interval .
milter.suspend_time_on_unacceptable | See manager.suspend_time_on_unacceptable .
milter.max_connections | See manager.max_connections .
milter.max_file_descriptors | See manager.max_file_descriptors .
milter.event_loop_backend | See manager.event_loop_backend .
milter.event_loop_backend | See manager.event_loop_backend .
milter.n_workers | See manager.n_workers .
milter.packet_buffer_size | See manager.packet_buffer_size .
milter.maintained | See manager.maintained .
milter.event_loop_created | See manager.event_loop_created .
milter.name | Returns child milter's name. Since 1.8.1.

## Database

You can use configuration items same as '"database" group' . Please see milter-manager's document page for details. It includes setup document and tutorial.

database.type | See database.type .
database.name | See database.name .
database.host | See database.host .
database.port | See database.port .
database.path | See database.path .
database.user | See database.user .
database.password | See database.password .
database.setup | See database.setup .
database.load_models(path) | See database.load_models .